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Jan/Feb 2017 • Vol. XXXIX No. 1 • Poetry |

The Night Hour

By Giovanni Pascoli, translated by Taije Silverman and Marina Della Putta Johnston

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Taije Silverman’s first book of poetry, Houses Are Fields, was published in 2009. Her translated Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli, was published in 2019. Poems are forthcoming in Narrative, Ploughshares, and Southern Review.

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